Julia Child is one smart cookie

September 28, 2013
Postwar Paris wasn't all crepes suzettes and ladies swanning around in nip-waisted dresses. You've got to love a chapter that opens like this.  It's from Karen Karbo's...
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Wallow in the joy of being alone

September 25, 2013
Not everyone understand the joys of solitude, either for themselves or others. Years ago I had a friend who would get hugely pissed off when I'd withdraw and...
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Beginning is always hardest

September 23, 2013
Why is it that the first step is always the highest, the hardest and the one we like to avoid taking? You know what I mean. That is, if, like me, you are a...
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Random pleasures

September 20, 2013
One of life's great thrills is wandering around and discovering random pleasures, some guilty and some not so much. Grocery store items I wish I hadn't noticed. So one...
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Promises, promises

September 19, 2013
"I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me." ~ Kermit the frog Some of the most important promises are those we make to ourselves. I don't...
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Walking each other home

September 14, 2013
We're all just walking each other home. ~Ram Dass "Home." It's something every religious tradition references, but regardless of which we follow, or even if we...
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How to safely barbecue

September 13, 2013
My husband's always taken his lack of barbecuing skills as a badge of courage. Despite a long lifetime in Florida, he never had a barbecue grill and never cooked...
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The HuffPo emperor has no clothes

September 12, 2013
I have a bone to pick with the ubiquitous Huffington Post.  Because I use my almost 20-year-old AOL account for non-personal emails, I see HuffPo stories almost every...
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The value of saying goodbye

September 10, 2013
Some people find goodbyes easy, but I'm not one of them. You've probably heard that saying that friends can be in your life "for a reason, a season or a lifetime."...
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Speaking your truth

September 8, 2013
This could very well be my favorite chakra. (Is there such thing as a favorite chakra?)  Where is the throat chakra?  At the base of the neck, just where you'd think...
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